A Century of Creepy Stories Agatha Christie With engraved title page

With engraved title page

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in original dust wrapper featuring a painting by Paul Lowe

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Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death and is forced to make his own way in the world

A Century of Creepy Stories Agatha Christie With engraved title pageA Century of Creepy Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co., [Undated, but 1934]. First edition, first printing of this omnibus volume that contains seventy stories by forty one famous writers, including master blood curdlers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Algernon Blackwood. Hardcover; xi, 1178 pp. Publisher's original turquoise cloth, decorated and lettered in black to upper cover and spine, plain endpapers; with the original,